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The w32client pair of scripts configure a Windows system to make use
of an existing read-only TeX Live installation, typically on a
network drive.

Copy these scripts to the root of the TeX live installation,
i.e. the same directory as texmf, texmf-dist etc.

This pair of scripts is intended as a prototype. Normally, it should
work as-is, at least after copying to the right place, but you
should review the following items:

- check which shortcuts you want to include (add_desktop_shortcut
  and add_menu_shortcut)

- Decide which file associations, if any, you want to create
  (register_extension and register_filetype). Although we wrote the
  functions for it, we decided in the end not to use them in the
  regular installation.

- You can comment out or remove the xetex stanza if you aren't going
- to use xetex.

- If the directory layout is non-standard, you may have to edit the
  texmf.cnf in the root of the installation. Use relative
  directories, using $SELFAUTOPARENT, whenever possible. See
  texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf for examples.